Keith Gordon (born February 3, 1961) is an American actor and film director. He was born in New York City, the son of Mark, an actor and stage director, and Barbara Gordon. He grew up in an atheist Jewish family. Gordon was inspired to become an actor at the age of twelve, after seeing James Earl Jones in a Broadway production of Of Mice and Men. As an actor, Gordon's first feature film role was that of class clown Doug in Jaws 2 (the 1978 sequel to the blockbuster hit Jaws). In 1979 Gordon appeared in Bob Fosse's semi-autobiographical All That Jazz as the teenage version of the film's protagonist Joe Gideon (played by Gordon's Jaws 2 co-star Roy Scheider). Gordon then appeared in two films by Brian De Palma: as a film student in Home Movies (1979) and in the 1980 erotic thriller Dressed to Kill as the son of Angie Dickinson's character. Gordon played Arnie Cunningham, the main character (who buys the titular car Christine), in the 1983 horror film Christine, directed by John Carpenter from the novel by Stephen King. In the 1985 cult film The Legend of Billie Jean Gordon played Lloyd Muldaur, the son of a District Attorney who aspires to be Attorney General. He was in the 1986 Mark Romanek film Static, and he wrote the screenplay. In the 1986 comedy movie Back to School, Gordon played Jason Melon, the son of Rodney Dangerfield's character.[4] In most of these films, he played a nerd. He was named number 1 in Cinematicals' Top 7 Most Convincing Nerds. His most recent onscreen film appearance was in 2001, in the movie Delivering Milo. Gordon left acting for directing, making his debut in 1988 with the movie The Chocolate War, about a student who rebels against the rigid hierarchies in his Catholic school. His other films include the 1992 anti-war film A Midnight Clear, about a group of American soldiers in the Ardennes just before and during the Battle of the Bulge, as well as Mother Night (adapted from the novel by Kurt Vonnegut), Waking the Dead, and the film The Singing Detective. He also directed some of the mini-series Wild Palms and appeared in the 2006 Iraq War documentary Whose War?. His directing credits for television include Homicide: Life on the Street, Gideon's Crossing, Dexter, The Bridge, House and the second and third seasons of Fargo.

Filmography

• Legion — Director
• 2016Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls — Director
• Better Call Saul — Director
• The Returned — Executive Producer, Director
• Fargo — Director, Thanks
• The Leftovers — Director
• The Strain — Director
• Masters of Sex — Director
• Rectify — Executive Producer, Director
• The Bridge — Taxidermist, Director
• 2012A Winter's War: Keith Gordon on 'A Midnight Clear'
• Homeland — Director
• The Killing — Director
• Rubicon — Director
• Nurse Jackie — Director
• Dexter — Kyle Butler #2, Director
• House — Director
• 2003The Singing Detective — Director
• 2002Shadow Realm — Director
• 2001Delivering Milo — Dr. Baumgartner
• Night Visions — Director
• Waking the Dead — Creator
• 2000Waking the Dead — Director, Producer
• 1996Mother Night — Director, Producer
• 1994Hoggs' Heaven — William Hogg
• 1994I Love Trouble — Andy
• Fallen Angels — Director
• Homicide: Life on the Street — Director
• Wild Palms — Director
• 1992A Midnight Clear — Director, Screenplay
• Brooklyn Bridge
• 1988It's Richard I Love — Richard
• 1988The Chocolate War — Director, Writer
• 1986Back to School — Jason Melon
• 1986Charlie Barnett's Terms of Enrollment — Mugger
• 1986Combat Academy — Maxwell 'Max' Mendelsson
• 1986Static — Ernie Blick, Writer
• 1985The Legend of Billie Jean — Lloyd
• Miami Vice — Prof. Terrence 'Terry' Baines
• 1984Single Bars, Single Women — Lionel
• 1983Christine — Arnie Cunningham
• American Playhouse — Chris Panakos
• 1982Silent Rebellion — Chris
• 1981Kent State — Jeff Miller
• 1980Dressed to Kill — Peter Miller
• 1980Home Movies — Denis Byrd
• 1979All That Jazz — Young Joe
• 1978Jaws 2 — Doug Fetterman
• Medical Center

Appearances as themselves (15)

• Eli Roth's History of Horror — Self
• 2012Kingdom Come — Self
• 2011The 'Scarface' Phenomenon — Self
• 2009Starz Inside: Sex and the Cinema — Self
• 30 Even Scarier Movie Moments — Self
• 2006Big John — Self
• 2006Hitchcocked! — Self
• 2006Working with a Master: John Carpenter — Self
• 2004Christine: Fast and Furious — Self
• 2004Christine: Finish Line — Self
• 2004Christine: Ignition — Self
• 2001Dressed to Kill: An Appreciation by Keith Gordon — Self
• 2001Jaws 2: A Portrait by Actor Keith Gordon — Self
• 2001Slashing 'Dressed to Kill' — Self
• 2001The Making of 'Dressed to Kill' — Self